Tennessee's voter ID law does much harm for little good

The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the voter ID law even while admitting that it solved a nonexistent problem. What the law does do, however, is disenfranchise thousands of registered voters across the state.

The court said that the law was "necessary in order to protect the integrity of the election process." Or, in the immortal words of an army major during the Vietnam War, they had to "destroy the village in order to save it."

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Tennessee's voter ID law does much harm for little good

The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the voter ID law even while admitting that it solved a nonexistent problem. What the law does do, however, is disenfranchise thousands of registered voters across